Tiny White Flowers

Friday, November 7, 2008

One more thing...again

On today's Writer's Almanac:

Following the Road

I have left my wife at the airport,flying out to help our daughterwhose baby will not eat.And I am driving on to Kentto hear some poets read tonight.

I don't know what to do with myselfwhen she leaves me like this.An old friend has decided to end our friendship. Another is breaking it off with his wife.

I don't know what to sayto any of this-Life's hard.And I say it aloud to myself,Living is hard, and drive furtherinto the darkness, my headlightsonly going so far.

I sense my own tense breath, this fearwe call stress, making it something else,hiding from all that is real.

As I glide past Twin Lakes,flat bodies of water under stars,I hold the wheel gently, slowing mybody to the road, and know again that this is just living, not a traumanor dying, but a lingering painreminding us that we are alive.

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About Me

Ronda is the author of Shedding Our Skins, (2008), and Some Other Eden,
(2005). Nominated seven times for the Pushcart, recipient of a 2007
Artist Trust GAP Grant, finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Book Award,
Ronda is currently Poetry Editor for the literary journal, Crab Creek
Review.